How was immigration in the 1960s similar to that of the 1920s?
In class, we learned about the statistics and the facts; however, interviewing a person is different, one can go into their memory, experience and what they went throw. That is the difference between a class and an interview. However, In both can learn something in the past. The person I interviewed was Virginia Maravillas. She was born in 1937 in Mexico City, She has 10 siblings and with her is 11, she is the 4th one. She can be described as a person who likes to help people in need. She came here in 1969 with his husband and her three children. She meets her husband in Mexico City. They both were 32 when they came here. They came here with US residency. Immigrating to another …show more content…
The American dream became an idea when Columbus discovered America. It made it official when James Truslow Adams said, “The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement”. In other words, it suggests that anyone in the U.S. can succeed through hard work and has the potential to lead a happy, successful life. The American Dream ,in both 1920 and 1960, is a form to progress for the immigrants that came here. However, it can be described in many different ways. People who come here wanted a better life, that what they had before. It is not an easy thing to have the American dream every year it gets harder to progress. The American dream will always be here. In this case, Virginia and her family had to overcome many things as an immigrant, but it was different from her point of view than an immigrant who has no papers. They did not have to worry about immigration problems as most immigrants did. They had more opportunities here than in Mexico. Virginia’s first job was a housekeeper in a hospital. When she came here she had to face a lot of difficulties to adjust in her new environment. In the 60’s, there were not a lot of people speaking Spanish, so she had to learn to speak English. They were all alone and the worst thing is that her husband was ill three years after they came here and was in the hospital three months. She had to take care of her three children and her husband all alone. Her Life was more difficult here because they were looking for the American
In class, we learned about the statistics and the facts; however, interviewing a person is different, one can go into their memory, experience and what they went throw. That is the difference between a class and an interview. However, In both can learn something in the past. The person I interviewed was Virginia Maravillas. She was born in 1937 in Mexico City, She has 10 siblings and with her is 11, she is the 4th one. She can be described as a person who likes to help people in need. She came here in 1969 with his husband and her three children. She meets her husband in Mexico City. They both were 32 when they came here. They came here with US residency. Immigrating to another …show more content…
The American dream became an idea when Columbus discovered America. It made it official when James Truslow Adams said, “The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement”. In other words, it suggests that anyone in the U.S. can succeed through hard work and has the potential to lead a happy, successful life. The American Dream ,in both 1920 and 1960, is a form to progress for the immigrants that came here. However, it can be described in many different ways. People who come here wanted a better life, that what they had before. It is not an easy thing to have the American dream every year it gets harder to progress. The American dream will always be here. In this case, Virginia and her family had to overcome many things as an immigrant, but it was different from her point of view than an immigrant who has no papers. They did not have to worry about immigration problems as most immigrants did. They had more opportunities here than in Mexico. Virginia’s first job was a housekeeper in a hospital. When she came here she had to face a lot of difficulties to adjust in her new environment. In the 60’s, there were not a lot of people speaking Spanish, so she had to learn to speak English. They were all alone and the worst thing is that her husband was ill three years after they came here and was in the hospital three months. She had to take care of her three children and her husband all alone. Her Life was more difficult here because they were looking for the American